Cloth winder



2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

(No Model.)

A. BROWN.

CLOTH WINDER.

No. 351,092 ,2 Patented Oct. 19, 1886.

INVENTOR WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT BROIVN, OF MFNDOCINO, CALIFORNIA.

CLOTH-WINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.351,092, dated October 19, 1886.

Application filed July 19, 1884. Serial No.138fl02. N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mendocino, in the county of Mendocino and State of California, have invented an Improvement in Gloth-XVinders, of which the following is a description.

The object of this invention is to improve the action or working of bolt-sup porting devices of this class of machines.

The invention consists of the combinations of parts, including their construction, substantially hereinafter fully set 'i'orth,and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is an end elevation of a. winder and measurer with my improvements applied thereto. Fig..2 is a front elevation of the 1nachine,partly in section. Fig. 3 is a side view of a wire frame on which to wind carpets and with the holding-clamps in section.

The letters A A indicate two opposite end frames, made of metal or wood, and B B 01) is the cloth-measuring reel,which is journaled in the frames on a shaft, 0, and over which the cloth a or other fabric to be measured passes.

D is the clotlrholding apron or drag.

E is a lower guide bar or roller, and F G are guide-bars placed over the reel at each side.

A loose anti frictional roller, 0, is placed upon the guide-bar E.

To provide for supporting the bolts or rollers of cloth at the front and rear of the machine, a pair of cross-rods,j j, is fastened at front and rear to the frames A A, and on each pair of rods 1) is mounted loosely a post or standard, J, which may be slid along the rods jj, and fastened at any point by a set-screw, 7r, threaded through the post-bearings, so as to bind upon the rods. Set-screws 7; k are used for both rodsjj; but a single set-screw acting on one rod will suliice. In the top of the post J, I fit loosely the hollow bearing L, which is closed at its outer end, as at F, and may he slid lengthwise in the post,and be fastened in position by a thumb-screw, threaded through the head of the post.

M is a spindle, which is slipped into the hearing L and against a spiral spring, Z, which thus is confined between the end wall, of the hearing and the inner end of the spindle,and tends to cushion. the spindle endwise for allowing the more easy rotation of the windingbolt I of cloth which is held in place at the end next to the post J by a clamp or clip, N, bent into U shape and slipped onto one end of the central board, 1', on which the bolt of cloth is wound. The clamp N has an angular or square hole in its bend at the back, which receives the correspondingly-shaped end at of the spindle M, which has a fixed collar, in, against which the clamp rests, as shown. It will be seen that the spindle M will rotate freely in the bearing L, and that any endwise wabbling or uneven rotation of the cloth-bolt will be conipensated for by an expansion and contraction of the spring Z, which allows easy movement of the bolt, while holding it securely at that end. At the opposite end the bolt I is held in a clamp, N, like the one N, and this clamp N is held on a spindle, M, like the one M, except that it has fixed to its outer end the crank-handle O, by which the bolt I is turned in winding up the cloth.

The spindle M passes clear through the hollow tube L, which serves as a bearing to the spindle, and may he slid lengthwise in the frame A, and may also be fastened in any de sired position by a set-screw, Z, passed in through the frame.

The sliding arrangement ofthe spindle-bearingsLL permits them to beshiftcdas required, to fit the opposite end clamps, N N, snugly to whirling-boards i of varying lengths within an inch or two and without requiring the post .I to be shifted on its supportingrodsjj, while for considerable differenets in length of the bolt I, according to the width of the cloth or fabric,the post J may quickly be shifted on the rods, as will readily be understood.

The unwinding cloth-bolt H is held at the rear of the inachi me by adjustable tubular bearings L L, fitted, respectively, in a sliding or adjustable post, J, and in the frame A and spindles M M, and spring Z, substantially as above described, with reference to the windingbolt I.

As the cloth passes over the reel its measurement is provided for as follows: The reel B, which measures exactly one yard around its circumference, has its shaft provided with a crank-arm, c, which engages the teeth of the dial-plate or register P, and which, at each revolution of the reel, turns the dial-plate one tooth. A tooth of the dial-plate P, diametrically opposite the numeral 1 of said plate, is adapted to engage the crown-teeth of a lower dial-plate, Q, and turn said plate Q, the distance of one tooth at a time, which will move plate Q a distance to correspond with one of the division spaces or graduations on said dial- 'p1ate Q. These gradnations of plate Q are arranged in successive multiples of fifteen, as shown, allowing an advance of fifteen for each of the fifteen teeth of the dial-plate Q, and the required measurement of the cloth. At the commencement of the measuring operation the crank c is set between adjacent teeth directly over the numerals 1 and 15 of dial-plate P, and the lower dial-plate, Q, will be set so that the long tooth thereof will come between the numerals 15 and 225. The first complete revolution of the dial-plate]? will then, through the engagement of its long tooth with a tooth of the dial-plate Q, register fifteen yards, and each subsequent revolution of the dial-plate will measure an additional fifteen yards until the whole of the cloth or fabric passing from the reel has been measured. Index-pointers RB may be fixed to stand vertically upon the shafts of both of the dial-plates P Q. The carpet-winding frame B, Fig. 3, which may be used with the clamps N N, consists of a U* shaped bar or fram'e,which may be placed be tween the clamps N N, as shown in Fig. 3, the looped end thereof being placed in clamp N, and the free ends being fitted into holesin the clamp N.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with the post J, of the tubular bearing L, fitted to slide in the post, the loose spindle M in the bearing L, the thumb-screw Z, and the spring I, acting to force the spindle outward, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination of the post and its supporting-rods, the tubularbearirig fitted to slide in the post, the loose spindle in the bearing, the spring acting outwardly upon the spindle,

and the thumb or holding screw, substantially \Vitnesses:

0. W. EVERSON, G. GANNING SMITH. 

